[Mr. Mojo]

No different that Flight #587 - 11/11/01 - during Bush's watch. Both were terrorist incidents, and the airline industry would've been utterly annihilated had the truth been let out about either.

[safisoft]

No different that Flight #587 - 11/11/01 - during Bush's watch. Both were terrorist incidents, and the airline industry would've been utterly annihilated had the truth been let out about either.

I disagree, and so do most pilots. Nearly all the pilots I speak to (since I am a pilot and an instructor for a major airline, I speak to more than the average person) express SERIOUS doubts about the NTSB's findings regarding TWA 800. To a person, the theory is TOTALLY backward from everything we as pilots know experiencially and scientifically.

On the other hand, AA 587 indeed looks EXACTLY like what the NTSB is focusing on - and that is a structural failure due to rapid (and opposite) full rudder inputs. Basically, the First Officer broke the vertical stabilizer off by applying 3000 psi pressure to a massive rudder - in rapid and opposite inputs. Pilots buy that - a bomb for AA 587 is extremely unlikely - the best explanation for fully functioning engines and the complete vertical stabilizer coming off at about the same time (leaving the REST of the aircraft intact until impact) is massive action about the vertical axis of the aircraft.

[Pro-Bush]

No different that Flight #587 - 11/11/01 - during Bush's watch. Both were terrorist incidents, and the airline industry would've been utterly annihilated had the truth been let out about either.

Well said!

[Terridan]

I'm with you... this info would have completely brought the airline industry to a standstill. I just wish Klintoon would have gotten off his duff and taken care of buisnesss. Maybe the public AND the airlines would have had a better chance. Maybe us nobody's would have been more aggressive in preventing these ragheads from succeeding on 9/11... I will never forgive this lying thief and whoremonger...